Students walk through the University of Texas campus. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges can no longer consider race in admissions. Credit: Leila Saidane/The Texas Tribune The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the consideration of ...

AUSTIN, Texas — (The Texas Tribune) - High school students in Texas will need to be in the top 5% of their graduating class to gain automatic admission to the University of Texas at Austin to enroll in the fall of 2026, a harder threshold to meet than ...

Getting into the University of Texas at Austin just got a little tougher. Beginning in 2011, the campus will limit automatic admissions to students who rank in the top 8 percent of their class, rather than the top 10 percent, according to a letter sent to ...